of massachusetts, mitt romney! >> narrator: on november 5, 2002, romney was elected governor of massachusetts. he was 55 years old, the same age his father had been when he was elected governor of michigan. >> mitt romney, the 70th governor of the commonwealth of massachusetts... >> and he wasted no time getting down to business... >> narrator: as governor, mitt romney hit the wall. the state legislature was dominated by the democrats. >> you could argue that he didn't run the state government, because he couldn't run the state government, because he didn't have the votes of support, and therefore that he was a republican island in a democratic sea. >> narrator: romney wasn't one of the boys-- a political backslapper-- didn't engage with the legislature on a personal basis. >> and coming from corporate america, that kind of compounded the problem. he truly didn't have an understanding of how valuable the political personal component of the business would be as he went forward with implementing the political rhetori